ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

There have most likely been times that many of us have fallen short in taking care of our customers. It could be that a competitor is delivering a better experience. First, there must be a way to measure the experience. Shep Hyken is a customer service expert, keynote speaker, and New York Times, bestselling business author.

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Kayako

APRIL 15, 2019

We had the pleasure of hosting customer service and experience expert, Shep Hyken earlier this month for a half hour Q&A session on why customer experience matters so much and what businesses must do to create the best experiences for their customers. ” – Shep Hyken. .

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CloudCherry

AUGUST 22, 2019

In his discussion with CloudCherry’s very own James Gilbert, Shep shares with us the 6 Principles that drive a convenient experience, offering fantastic examples of each. As he says, “The company that can add convenience to already good customer service has an opportunity to disrupt their competition- maybe even an industry.”

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The Best Free (and Cheap) Customer Experience Training Courses Online. Get access to all three of Jeannie's Customer Experience courses and 14,000+ more. Free CX Courses: Free Customer Service Training by LiveChat. Sort-of-Free CX Courses: Customer Service Foundations by Jeff Toister.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 29, 2024

So, here’s a question for you: Are you confident your customer service and CX won’t scare your customers away? If you do any of these, your customers will love you – nothing scary about that – but your competition will be scared their customers might find out and switch to you. Customers love prompt responses.

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Comm100

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Every company out there is trying to be more customer-centric, and the race for an excellent customer experience is heating up. Nowadays, having competitive prices and bombarding customers with advertisements and offers is not enough. Download Now. Set Clear Objectives.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The slogan originated from the restaurant’s founder, Gus Belt, who would bring a barrel of steaks into the restaurant and grind them into burgers in front of the customers. It was meant to reassure customers that the burgers were made with fresh, wholesome ingredients. They want you to be happy with how they deliver their CX.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 21, 2019

It is an example of excellent customer service. Then there were other “should haves” that might make the customer’s experience better. A snack box to give your customers a little something they weren’t expecting. Water bottles to give to customers. I refer to this list as Customer-Focused Musts.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 31, 2023

Many years ago, a friend shared some advice with me: It doesn’t cost much more to enjoy a first-class experience. He was referring to spending just a little more in certain situations to get much more out of the experience. Looking back, I did what most good people – or companies – would do for their customers.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. My Comment: We kick off this week’s Top Five roundup with another article featuring Forrester Research’s take on customer obsession, and this time the focus is on B2B. Here are my top five picks from last week.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 4, 2025

How would you like to know what made a customer angry or sad, leading them to leave a negative review? I had a sit-down with Michael Podolsky, the CEO of PissedConsumer.com , a sounding board for consumers to leave comments and reviews when they cant get the customer service they want or deserve. Direct feedback is a gift.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 4, 2023

And in the world of customer service and CX, there is much to be excited about. Last month I released my annual Top Ten Customer Experience Predictions in my weekly Forbes column. Customers Will Be Smarter and More Demanding Than Ever – I may sound like a broken record as I start each year with this prediction.

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ShepHyken

JULY 29, 2020

Call me boring, but I want the same thing every time—at least when it comes to customer experience. I want to predict the experience I’m going to have with the people and places I do business with. If, for some reason, there is a problem, we want our customers to know they can always count on us to resolve it for them.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

When you make a customer smarter, at least two things are happening. One, you’re showing off your knowledge in such a way that is all about the customer, and not just about how much you know. Confidence is very important to get a customer to not just buy but to come back and buy some more. Just make your customers smarter. .

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ShepHyken

JULY 28, 2021

One of the big concepts we teach in our customer service training programs is the concept of Always. This is the backbone of creating customer amazement. For example, your customers might say: “They are always so helpful.”. Often, they are really just one person the customer is interacting with.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 11, 2023

Most everyone in the business world is familiar with the idea of customer experience (CX). And as popular as CX is, there’s a somewhat new concept that has been coming on strong for the past five years, and that’s the employee experience (EX). Most businesses today use technology to meet their customers’ needs.

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ShepHyken

MAY 6, 2020

Then there was the gap between the service you want the customer to experience and the actual service they receive. Often when leadership is surveyed about how good they think their service and experience is, it differs—in a negative way—from what the customer is actually experiencing.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 23, 2020

You call the customer service hotline. A pleasant customer support agent picks up the phone and enthusiastically greets you, ready to help resolve your problem or answer your question. The friendly voice comes on after you, the customer, may have already spent 30 minutes holding. It’s the same in business. Consider this.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Want to engage and connect with your customers more effectively? I had a chance to interview Matt for my Be Amazing or Go Home TV show, and he shared specific insights on how to improve the customer experience. Personalization is a hot topic, and “on-demand” is about giving the customer what they want when they want it.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 28, 2020

Forrester, Oracle, and others predict plenty of customer experience challenges for the near future. Anxiety is ramping up for senior leaders focused on customer experience, and it’s not difficult to understand why. First, understand the true costs of NOT investing in customer experience.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

I recently wrote an article in Forbes about how to get customers to pay more. The focus, of course, was on customer service and experience. Research has irrefutably proven that customers will pay more for a better experience. It’s the same for certain aspects of customer service. Not that much!

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Chewy CEO Sumit Singh explains that a “moat” of human-led customer service was built around the Chewy brand so that it can compete in the evolving marketplace. Good experience builds loyalty.”

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Last week, I shared ten ideas to drive a better customer experience in 2020. Without any further delay, here are ten more ways to create a better customer experience in 2020. Create your customer service mantra. The mantra is a simple phrase—one sentence or less—that sums up your customer service culture.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 10, 2021

We were discussing how important it is to “bake” customer service into the culture. It’s leadership’s job to define the customer service vision, ensure it’s communicated, and be the role models demonstrating how customers and employees are to be treated. And don’t think customers won’t notice.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 11, 2019

With all the focus on how technology—including AI, data, personalization and more—can drive a better customer experience, I wanted to shift my focus back to basics. Here are the first ten of twenty ideas as to how you can up your customer service game in 2020. Don’t waste your customers’ time. Stay in touch.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 24, 2020

It’s about customer retention—which can lead to customer loyalty. Loyal customers are important to all businesses regardless of industry or size—large, small, B2B or B2C. It’s easy to measure customer satisfaction at different levels. We find out how they liked our experience. That’s your customer retention number.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 5, 2020

What gets in the way of creating a great customer service experience for you and/or your organization? Is it a process that is clunky, inconvenient and difficult for the customer? Is it people who aren’t properly trained or don’t have the right people skills? For information, contact 314-692-2200 or www.hyken.com.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 28, 2021

This is a great customer service training lesson. So, he calls the dealership’s customer service number, which was actually a support center for all of that brand’s dealerships in the U.S. But you knew that, and let’s all assume the customer service agent knew it, too. He bought a new car.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Sitting outside in the heat, baking between the two doors, was not customer service… it was customer disservice. It is not merely the opposite of customer service —that would be bad customer service. This scenario was more like “no customer service.”. This is customer disservice.

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ShepHyken

JULY 22, 2020

I was on a customer support call with a software company and their rep said, “I’ll need to talk to my manager. This is the customer service rep I want to talk to every time I call the company. When it comes to customer service, I’m in alignment with the second definition. Follow on Twitter: @Hyken.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

What if the worst thing a customer ever said about you was, “I love you!”? Do customers love you even when there’s a problem or complaint? Here are six ways to make customers love you no matter what! Become customer-focused. Customers appreciate knowing and understanding when and why something changes.

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ShepHyken

MAY 26, 2021

Even though this is about a sales presentation, it ties into customer service. It has to do with preparation, knowing your customer, understanding what they want, and more. This is what great salespeople do to prepare for a meeting with a customer or client. The lesson: Know who your customer is. Wrong answer!

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 20, 2021

So, here’s the question to consider: What small change will enhance the experience for the customer, even if it is just by 1%? My friend and client, Jason Bradshaw of Volkswagen in Australia, was tasked with improving the customer experience for the VW dealerships. What happens when a customer calls?

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

So many ways to serve chicken—so many ways you can amaze your customer. And like chicken, customer service—no matter how you serve it to your customer—is still customer service. A good customer service representative—or anyone in a customer-facing role—can manage the customer’s experience in numerous ways.

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CloudCherry

AUGUST 22, 2019

In his discussion with CloudCherry’s very own James Gilbert, Shep shares with us the 6 Principles that drive a convenient experience, offering fantastic examples of each. As he says, “The company that can add convenience to already good customer service has an opportunity to disrupt their competition- maybe even an industry.”

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Travel Customer Service Training Culture Loyalty 150

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

What do you call your customers? Do you call them “customers”? Isn’t that what you want with all of your customers—a long-term relationship in which the customer continues to pay for what you sell? Most people would call them customers. She wanted an opinion on why we call the experience a customer experience.

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ShepHyken

JULY 15, 2020

I recently wrote about taking the extra step to deliver amazing service. There were three steps: pay attention, care about your customers and put forth extra effort. Beyond that, she paid attention and took action on that one little piece of information that put an exclamation point on an already great experience.

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